When Beatrix opened her eyes, she saw Kai was staring at her.

"What the fuck is your problem?" she hissed, flinching and pulling the sheets to cover herself properly.

"You were talking in your sleep again," he said smugly. "I heard the names 'Kol' and 'Elijah.'"

"I was reliving memories," she mumbled, getting up to get dressed.

Kai simply continued to stare. She put on a sweater that she had found in the Mikaelson compound when she had snuck into Elijah's room, all those years ago. When she got out, she wanted to be wearing it. Her dream had reminded her that she had it in her possession. Under Kai's almost baleful watch, she slipped on some baggy jeans, and sneakers she hadn't worn in probably a decade.

"You're always hassling me about looking presentable and that's the outfit you choose to reunite with your man?" scoffed Kai.

She turned back, to where he was dressed in a t-shirt, shorts, and a jacket, as usual. "I don't see a problem with that."

He moved closer, gazing at her intently. "Did you mean what you said last night?" he asked. "Or was it just the heat of an angry moment?"

She sighed and leaned against the closet door. "I think so. I feel angry. But if I see Elijah again today... the feeling might wash away."

Kai pursed his lips. "Okay. But I will call you when I get my master plan through to destroy the Gemini Coven. So you can show me the perks of being a Heretic."

"Fine." She shrugged and went into the bathroom.

After they had a very tense breakfast with Damon and Bonnie (where Beatrix finally got to try the pancakes), Kai pulled her out the door and told the others to follow behind. He held the Ascendant up, pretending to be checking for the right spot again. He and Beatrix had known just which spot of the woods would suffice since years ago. But the others didn't know that.

"They're so gullible sometimes," Kai said with a chuckle as he held an ax over his shoulder. "They think we're looking, but we already know... and after this I'll make Damon dig and dig, just to leave him here. Pity for him."

Beatrix didn't answer. She trudged behind him, thinking back to what she had dreamed.

"Itza."

Elijah was in the doorway of their room. She turned, smiling. "Hey, 'Lijah," she said softly. "What's going on?"

"I have a surprise for you," he said, holding his arm up. "Please, come."

Skeptically, she went over, taking his arm as he led her out of the room. It was early 1901, and most days, Beatrix was either learning a new song on the piano and the violin, which Elijah had started teaching her, or she was stuck in the library reading. Elijah, however, had figured out something that would significantly cheer her up from being stuck inside.

He led her toward the dining room, where Beatrix could hear someone eating very loudly. They sounded starved. At first, she listened to the rapid heartbeat and thought perhaps they had brought home another young child that needed a safe home, but as they neared, the beating sounded stronger, like that of an adult. What was more, it sounded familiar.

When they entered the room, Beatrix's eyes widened. Hunched over a plate and devouring an entire ham was Kol Mikaelson, dressed in clean clothes that fit the 1900s much better, compared to the ratty 1820s attire he'd been daggered in.

"I undaggered him," whispered Elijah as she let go of his arm, covering her mouth. "I thought you two might like some freedom. It would do you both well to travel, if you are up for it."

Kol looked up at the sound of his brother's voice, and grinned. "Trix, I was wondering when I was going to see you." He wiped his mouth quickly, and Beatrix ran toward him, throwing her arms around him tightly. The younger Mikaelson brother looked at Elijah over her shoulder, nodding his appreciation. Pleased that Beatrix had enjoyed the surprise, Elijah left, giving them some time to have a proper reunion.

"You haven't changed a bit," Kol mused when she pulled away. "Still look all scrawny—"

She smacked his arm, laughing. "Klaus actually taught me to fight, so I'm sure I can pose a proper threat, even if I look all weak."

"Don't tell me you're gifted with compulsion! Why else would Klaus teach you?"

"You're ridiculous. He wanted me to learn."

Kol wiggled his eyebrows. "You and Klaus were an item for a bit, I'm guessing?"

She blushed. "In the 1830s, yes. Very brief, but he did teach me a lot. We still get along... for the most part. You know how he is."

"Elijah came around too, didn't he? I bet he fancied you since you met, but he never said anything. Just lurked around. Now, you two seem like a good pair."

She pursed her lips. "Are you mad?"

"No, why would I be? You're my best friend. Rebekah and I always considered you part of the family, and we always thought that you'd end up with either Elijah or Klaus. Or Finn, honestly, you two would get along swimmingly, but he's very critical, so I'm guessing he is still daggered."

Beatrix smiled and pulled him in for another hug. They remained silent, embracing and simply listening to the sound of the other breathing. "We can travel now, at least," she whispered. "Where shall we go first?"

"Arabia, of course, darling," Kol said without hesitation. "It's about time you learned Kemiya firsthand."

"Hear that?"

She blinked, and turned to Kai. "What am I supposed to be hearing?"

"They're close. Come on, let's go and find them."

Kai turned back the way they'd come, and Beatrix followed.

"Look, I want to go home more than anything," she heard Bonnie saying several feet away from them, "but Kai's a sociopath, who's to say he won't screw us over? Not to mention Beatrix wants to kill us after she found out about Kol."

"Me, I say, because I will kill Kai and Beatrix and anyone who comes in the way of me going home," Damon responded firmly.

Kai bounded forward, holding the ax steady. "I heard my name," he said casually, making Bonnie and Damon look up quickly. "All good I hope." He held up the Ascendant. "The eclipse will happen directly overhead. In perfect alignment with the Gemini constellation." He turned his gaze directly to Damon, who looked pissed. "You need to dig into the tunnels below us."

"Why?" Bonnie demanded.

Kai leaned over as if talking to a small child. "Have you never portal-jumped through an eclipse before?" he said, gasping playfully to aggravate her.

Damon and Bonnie glared at him, and Beatrix scoffed. "The light of the eclipse has to shine down to activate the Ascendant," she said. "Combined with the spell, anyone who is in the circle of light and is holding the Ascendant will go home."

"Let me see the spell, then," Bonnie said, reaching her hand out to Beatrix as if she expected her to have it written down.

"When the time comes," Kai said, pushing her hand down. He set the ax on the ground, then yanked Beatrix behind him and began to walk away.

"Where are you two going?" Damon asked sharply. "Don't tell me you want a quickie before returning to the real world."

Beatrix glanced back, and gritted her teeth, but Kai gripped her arm hard, siphoning just enough to get her to hold back a retort. "We're going into town to gather... some important supplies," Kai said, winking before pulling Beatrix away.

"I swear, I'm going to wring his neck and hang him to dry on a telephone pole," she growled when they were far enough away.

"And to think you thought him attractive when he first arrived," sighed Kai with fake dreaminess. "How the tables have turned..."

"He is attractive. But he's insufferable. He obviously didn't get along with Kol and he helped get him killed. Clearly, if he and Kol had issues, it's for a reason. Kol may have had a temper with anyone and everyone but he didn't hold grudges without cause."

Kai seemed to be in too good of a mood to make her shut up. He let her rant about Kol for the entire time that they were in their old residence, gathering the things he wanted to take. He grabbed the pager he'd been carrying with him since Portland, and several other things that Beatrix found fairly meaningless. She supposed he did have certain objects he cared about.

By the time they returned, Damon had dug a deep enough hole and broken through to the tunnels that lay beneath them.

"Looks like we got back just in time," Kai announced, setting the backpack down.

In a blur, Damon sped forward and took the backpack, opening it to see what was inside. "Nosy," chastised Beatrix with a small sneer.

"Zima, grunge, every Alex Rodriguez rookie card known to man, and a pager. Really?" Damon scoffed to Kai before dropping the bag on the ground.

"Um, yeah," Kai said. "555-Hiya-Kai— no way am I giving those digits up."

Damon was staring in disbelief, while Bonnie looked suspicious. "These are the important supplies you needed to get?"

"Look," said Kai, holding his hands up. " The future sounds great, all right? I'm super excited about the Internet, but 1994 has been my home for most of my life. I'd hate to get homesick. So let's get down there—"

"No," Bonnie said sharply, walking forward and pushing Damon out of the way. "We are not going anywhere until you show me the spell."

Kai cast her a complacent grin, and crossed his arms. "Okay."

He remained completely still. At first, both Beatrix and Bonnie were confused, and there was a fraction of a second where they looked at each other.

"Are we literally not going anywhere?" Damon asked.

"Apparently not," said Beatrix, glaring at Kai. Why did he have to be so dramatic all the time?

Bonnie gritted her teeth audibly. "Fine, you don't want to show me the spell? Then you can do it yourself."

Kai didn't respond. He kept smiling, shifting his weight from his heels to the balls of his feet, letting his body rock. Bonnie then raised her arm. "You want my magic. Take it."

This made the siphon raise his eyebrows. "Uh-oh, she's being brave."

"I'm serious Kai!" snapped Bonie. "This was your big threat, wasn't it? If I do the spell and let us out of here, you'll just take my magic, leave me for dead, and do the spell yourself. So go ahead. Take all of it."

Beatrix and Damon were both about to speak, when Kai gripped onto Bonnie's shoulders. "Don't mind if I do." He began to siphon, and Bonnie yelped in pain. "I-It's okay, he won't kill me," she managed.

"Kai, seriously, what are you doing?" Beatrix snapped as Bonnie whimpered, forcing herself not to pull away. Even though Beatrix was furious with Bonnie and Damon, she in no way wanted Kai to mess everything up by killing the girl before they got out. She kicked Kai back, and he just smirked back at Bonnie, who winced and held her arms.

"He doesn't know the spell," she said to Damon. "Which means, we don't need him."

Beatrix wasn't sure what gave Bonnie that impression, but within an instant, the ax that Damon had been using to dig into the ground was lodged into Kai's chest.

"NO!" Damon yelled angrily. "No! BONNIE!"

Kai fell to the ground, dead, and Beatrix just giggled, covering her mouth. "I assure you, he knew the spell," she said simply, making Damon groan.

"Great work, Bonnie," he told her sarcastically.

Bonnie looked at Beatrix. "Well? Are you going to help us or not?"

"Darling, I intended to help from the very beginning," she said, kicking Kai's shin. "And although I'd love nothing more than to cut that pretty head of yours off and place it on a stick, I still want to go home to my family."

Bonnie gulped, but didn't lose her stance. "Kol mentioned you, you know," she said, keeping her voice level.

Beatrix narrowed her eyes. "If this is some attempt to distract me before you do the same to me as you did to Kai—"

"No, I'm not lying," Bonnie said. "It isn't my memory, but it belonged to a Professor named Shane, who was trying to find the immortal witch Silas. Kol was trying to get us not to wake Silas, and he was torturing information out of Shane." She offered her arm. "Please. Let me show you."

Reluctantly, Beatrix took her hand.

Suddenly, she was standing in front of a man who looked highly disheveled. His green eyes glanced up when she, seemingly in Bonnie's body, walked into the room. The man held up a bloodstained shirt, apparently what he had been wearing previously.

"Turns out I miscalculated," he said. "Kol's gonna be a problem."

"I almost killed someone, and that's what you miscalculated?" Bonnie's voice rang out. "April could have died today!"

"And that's only because you didn't know the extent of your abilities," the man told 'Bonnie.'

"My father just became mayor. I can't be out doing black magic!" She turned to leave, but the man called her attention back. "That's not what Expression is!"

"Then what is it?" 'Bonnie' demanded.

"It's a way of doing magic that isn't monitored by nature or the spirits. It isn't good or bad, but it also has no limits. So how you use it is up to you. That's what I'm here for: to help you. Bonnie, listen to me. You are the key to everything. I'm not going to let anything bad happen to you." He then held out his hand. "Come. I want to show you my memory. You all need to be aware of Kol's fears to be able to succeed despite his efforts to stop you. It will get worse."

Beatrix's body moved forward, and she took the Professor's hand.

Suddenly, she was in another memory, now in the man's body. She was underwater, and she gasped for breath, before she was yanked out roughly.

"WHERE IS THE CURE?" snarled Kol in her ear before dunking her back into the water. The Professor thrashed around, and Beatrix felt herself struggling to breathe even though it wasn't real.

"Where is the cure?" Kol demanded when he pulled her back up for air. The scene blurred before her as he let her go. When her vision cleared, she saw Rebekah had walked into the room, and she was now facing both her and Kol.

"You're human," Rebekah said. "Why do you want it anyway?"

The Professor's voice rang out. "That's the beauty of this. You can have it. I just want Silas."

Kol lunged forward and seized the Professor by the shirt. "What do you know about Silas?"

"He's the world's first immortal being," the Professor panted, "who just happens to be imprisoned with the cure...and I want to free him."

"No!" Kol yelled, shoving them back into the water. But Rebekah intervened immediately and pulled them out. "Stop! He's of no use dead!"

The man coughed loudly as he tried to regain his breath, and Beatrix looked up to see Kol glaring furiously at Rebekah. "Did you not just hear what he said?" Kol snarled. "Silas will kill us all, sister!"

"Silas does not exist," Rebekah argued. "He is a-a fairytale made up to scare children into eating their vegetables!"

"No he isn't!" Kol growled. "Fuck— none of you know anything! He is real! If Beatrix were here, she'd prove my point!"

"None of us are Beatrix, Kol," said Rebekah sharply. "We don't know all the witchy things you do. As far as we know, Silas is NOT real!"

"Silas is very real," the Professor said hoarsely. "I know where he's buried, and soon I will have the spell that wakes him."

Kol gritted his teeth and turned to the Professor. "Wait a second— you're lying. You can't get to him."

"Without his tombstone? Dozens to die in a blood sacrifice? Believe me, I know. I've done it. Those massacres are a pain to engineer."

Rebekah's eyes widened. "You're the one who got the council blown up."

"It was a noble sacrifice...and temporary, because once I raise Silas, Silas will raise the dead. He will bring back every last soul who died on his behalf."

Kol had had enough. He grabbed a pole from behind him and stabbed it through Shane. Rebekah yelled out and shoved Kol back. "You can't kill him!" she screamed.

"I can't have Silas show up and destroy everything before we find her, Rebekah!" Kol spat, shoving her aside to keep her from pulling the pole out of Shane. "Maybe you think that there's no hope, because you think she's dead, but I know she isn't!"

"She and Marcel were killed in an Opera House, Kol!" shrieked Rebekah. "You weren't there! You didn't see how Mikael tied them up and lit the place on fire! They could never have escaped! He's saying that Silas will raise the dead— he can bring her back!"

"First of all— whose fault is it that I wasn't there?" he growled. "You blabbed to Klaus and he daggered me! None of you— except maybe Elijah— ever tried to understand what Trix and I studied. None of you ever cared about magic! And believe me when I tell you that she's not dead! I know it! Silas can't return! I'll die before I let that happen!"

The memory then faded, and Beatrix found herself standing in front of Bonnie and Damon once more. She blinked, and found that she had teared up.

"I'm sorry," Bonnie whispered. "I just thought you should see that."

Beatrix swallowed back a small sound that threatened to escape her. She squeezed her eyes shut and looked away. It had felt so good to see Kol again, to know he had been undaggered, that he had had freedom again. But knowing that he was dead only made it hurt that much more.

"If you're willing to cooperate," Bonnie said softly, "then I have no problem letting you come with us, Beatrix. I know you want to see them again, and I know they'll want to see you, too. We just need the spell. We have a few hours until the eclipse, and then we can leave. Do we have a deal?"

Beatrix looked down at Kai's body. In a few hours, he'd be back. But she wasn't sure whether she should tell them that or not. He may have been one of the worst of the bunch, but she didn't think he deserved to stay behind.

"Fine, we have a deal," she said, keeping the resurrection secret to herself.

And it seemed like it was really going to happen. That things would run smoothly and the three of them would get to go home. Beatrix forced herself to not think of the fact that Kai would revive soon. She hoped they'd be gone by the time that he came back. She didn't want to face him. Right now, it felt like the appropriate time to be selfish. But even though he was a sociopath, guilt started eating away at her.

Damon finished digging the hole properly, and Beatrix made a circle on the dirt in the tunnel below to mark where the light would come in. She found the spell in the grimoire Bonnie had, and showed it to her, allowing her to practice it a few times.

"It's time," Beatrix said, feeling a bit calmer now.

"Alright," Damon said as he and Bonnie met her in the center, under the light of the eclipse. "Let's get awkward."

Bonnie held the Ascendant up in between them. Beatrix placed her hand under Bonnie's, and Damon placed his hand under hers.

"I'm sure there are about a billion people you'd rather be here with..." Damon told Bonnie.

Bonnie smiled, and looked at Damon, then at Beatrix. The Heretic was surprised that the witch's smile didn't waver. "Not exactly. Let's go— AHH!"

Beatrix and Damon leapt back, seeing an arrow lodged into Bonnie's side, causing her to drop the Ascendant.

"Forgetting someone?" Kai said, pointing the crossbow at Damon. He smirked malevolently. "Let me guess, Beatrix forgot to tell you that she and I tried to kill ourselves and each other many times before, only for us to come back."

"I thought we'd be gone by the time you arrived," Beatrix growled.

"Here's the thing," Kai said, stepping forward, and now aiming the crossbow at Bonnie's chest. "I still need you, Trixter. Them, not so much. Not anymore, at least. So Damon, if you even think of leaning down to grab that Ascendant, the next arrow will go into Bonnie's heart."

Beatrix glanced over to where Damon had been staring at the Ascendant. Instead, he sped to Bonnie, holding her in his arms and ripping out the arrow. He bit into his wrist, ready to heal her. Kai raced to the Ascendant, but Beatrix shot it away from him. "We all go together or not at all," she snapped, feeling her temper rising.

"See, that's going to be a problem," Kai said. Before Damon could fully heal Bonnie with his blood, he shot an arrow at Beatrix, then at Damon, making them yell in pain. Beatrix began to pull hers out when Kai shot her again— twice this time, and stepped toward her, grasping her temples and making her scream as he siphoned directly out of her head. "Don't test me Trixter. I can always find someone else to turn me into a Heretic, can't I?"

He lunged for the Ascendant but Damon shot toward him, slamming him back, before yelling as Kai stabbed him with yet another arrow. Beatrix pulled the arrows out of herself and grunted, trying to crawl over to Bonnie to heal her. "Get out of here," she told her as she bit into her own wrist. "Now!"

"No," Bonnie said, pushing her hand away. "I'm not going to make it— but you and Damon are."

"What? Bonnie, no—"

"Motus!" She sent Kai flying back, and waved her hand, making Beatrix and Damon slam into each other at the center of the circle of light. She dropped the Ascendant into their hands. Beatrix tried to let go, but her eyes widened when she realized she couldn't "Bonnie— no—"

The Ascendant clicked once. "BONNIE!" Damon said. A second click, and then a bright light washed over the two of them. There was no hope for either of them to try and grab Bonnie— she'd spelled them together, likely to make sure neither could grant Kai a hold.

The last thing Beatrix saw was Bonnie, crying with a small smile on her face, before everything faded, along with the sound of Kai's furious yelling.